Put is to put something like a passcode or put something in its place. To do something. Pulled is to grab something harsher.
After winning the Battle of Brandywine, the British captured Philadelphia on September 26, 1777. The British army finally left the Continental capital almost nine months later on June 18, 1778, following France's entry into the war.
That novel is a parody of a knighthood which was long forgotten. Don Quixote reads chivalric books instead of being the knight himself. He becomes sort of mad - he sees dragons and enemies where there are only windmills. He thinks his love Dulcinea will never age and will forever wait for him - whereas in reality she is just a normal peasant who doesn't even know him. The values of knighthood are mocked in this novel, and that is what makes it a parody.
